Amy Butler's Modern Diaper Bag - Finished

I finished my version of Amy Butler's Modern Diaper Bag. Overall I liked this bag pattern. As I mentioned earlier some of the pattern notes were oddly worded, but if you have any prior sewing experience, especially with bags it's pretty simple to figure out. For example when making the pockets, just make the markings and then go ahead and make a box pleat, don't even try to decipher her instructions, just make a box pleat the way you know how. And if you don't know how, Google it, it's not difficult. 

I read that some folks online had a hard time assembling the pockets, I didn't find this too hard personally. I was a bit worried because I did not have enough fabric to make the long pockets as long as they were suppose to be, but I just made the pleats smaller and it worked out fine. I think might actually have been better, as I have read online that a lot of people found the pockets took up too much space inside the bag. 

The only other modifications I made was using the outside print for the pockets (because I didn't have enough liner fabric) and I eliminated one layer of interfacing. I thought two layers of fusible fleece gave enough structure without a third layer of midweight interfacing.

One more thing, this bag is HUGE, like HUGE. I would look totally ridiculous carrying this thing around town. That said, none of our family lives super close so it will be a perfect travel diaper bag. And if the whole having kids thing never happens for me I will definitely use it as a weekend away bag for myself.

Chase is shown in the last picture partly for scale and partly to illustrate how this little tabby lets me get nothing down without nosing her way into it. She can hear the sounds of me getting ready to do a project and loves nothing more than to get between me and whatever I am working on. Shortly after this picture was taken she climbed inside the bag.